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Cyanea sylvestris A. A Heller in Minnes. Hot. Stud. IX :909. 1897. 

 Cyaiica Fcddci Levi, in Fedde Repert. Spec. Nov. X:10/13, 136. 1911. 



(Plate 1'2.5.) 



An unbranehed slirub 1.3-2.6 m high, with a trunk 2.5-5 cm in diameter, 

 leaves large, disposed at the summit of the erect stem, lanceolate or ovate lance- 

 olate, 30-35 em long, 7.5-10 cm wide, thick, glabrous, light green and shining 

 above, paler beneath, serrulate, acute, narrowing below into a stout petiole, veins 

 prominent on both sides, the midrib raised on the upper side, Hat and broad on 

 the lowei- side; petioles 2 5-5 cm long; inflorescence somewhat pubescent with 

 short, brownish hair, flowers mostly in the axils of the upper leaves; peduncles 

 shorter than the petioles, several flowered ; calyx sulicampanulate, the lobes nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, much shorter than the tid)e ; corolla nearl.y 5 cm in length, 

 slender, curved, puiple; stamiual column glabrous; berry yellow, obovate, 4.37 

 cm in length, with a diameter of about 1.25 cm, crowned by the persistent style ; 

 seeds brown, very glossy. 



KAUAI : Wet woods near the Wahiawa river, at elevations of 2500-3000 

 feet, always found back in tlie forest, never in open places, fruiting (flowerbuds) 

 August S, 1895, A. A. Ileller no. 2691 in Gray Herbarium ; — ridge west of Ha- 

 napepe river (undeveloped flowerbuds), August 1895, Heller no. 2-194; — Hana- 

 pepe Valley, fruiting July 23, 1895, A. A. Ileller no. 2607 in Gray Herbarium ; — 

 Kauai, fruiting March 1910, U. Faurie no. 567 in Herbarium Leveilie and her- 

 barium of the College of Hawaii (as Cijaiwa Feddei Levi.) ; — Olokele canyon, 

 flowerbuds, October 18, 1916, Rock no. 13106 in herbarium of the College of 

 Hawaii ; — same locality, A. S. Hitchcock, October 18, 1916, no. 15232 in U. S. 

 National Herbarium and part in herbarium College of Hawaii. 



This is a very distinct species, and while the leaves are perfectly glabrous 

 on both sides, the flowers are of the same type as (' . hivtdla and the other species 

 of the section IlhicUae. 



SECT. IV. CYANEAE GENUINAE Hillebr. 

 SUBSECTION GLABRIFLOBAE. 



Cyanea noli-me-tangere Rock in Torrey Bot. CI. Bull. 44 ■.229, plate 9. 1917. 



(Plates 54, 126.) 

 Plant subherbaceous, 3-20 dm high, terrestrial, branching only when broken, 

 spinescent throughout, with the exception of the fruit and corolla ; stem green, 

 somewhat fleshy, entirely covered with strong, pale yellow, hollow spines; leaves 

 bright green, ovate-oblong, somewhat acute at the apex, rounded at the base, 

 thin in texture, irregularly and sinnately notched, with minute, mucronulate 

 teeth along the margin, covei'ed with yellow spines at more or less regular inter- 

 vals of 7-10 mm on both surfaces. 9-21 em long, 4-7.5 cm wide, on spinescent 

 petioles 1.5-4 cm in length, glabrous or slightly pubescent ; inflorescence axillary, 

 the spinescent peduncle 2-2.5 cm long, multibracteate two thirds its length ; pedi- 

 cels 6-10 mm long when in flower, 20 mm when in fruit, pubescent with whitish 

 hairlets; calyx similarly pubescent, calycine lobes triangular, acuminate, 3 mm 

 long; corolla greenish uhite, slightly pubescent, strongly curved, 4 cm long, of 

 unequal width, broadest portion (7 mm) beyond the dorsal slit, the latter extend- 

 ing one third the length of the corolla, upper corolla lobes 12 nmi long, the three 

 lower 8 mm long; stamiual column green, glabrous, as are the anthers, only the 

 two lower being penieillate; stigma pubescent; fruit orange-colored, pubescent. 

 ovoid, 1 cm long; seeds dark brown, shining. 



